3/11 · Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs

3/11 · Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs Jacob’s sons look back on their lives and advise the next generation in the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs. Jealousy, anger, forgiveness, and self-control give these farewell speeches their weight. The collection brings together Jewish traditions and Christian material, with its surviving form often placed around the second century CE. Charles’s 1913 edition also includes the late Hebrew Testament of Naphtali and Aramaic and Greek Levi-related fragments, kept separate from the main twelve testaments. https://t.co/pRDauUrVF4